1. (a.) Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient judge or sentence\.

2. (a.) Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of.

3. (n.) A lenitive; an emollient.

Spartan accepting accommodating accommodative admissive agreeable allowing armed with patience attentive balmy bland bleeding careless charitable clement commiserative compassionate complaisant condolent consenting considerate delicate disciplined easy easygoing endurant enduring faint forbearant forbearing forgiving generous gentle heedful helpful human humane impotent imprecise indifferent indulgent kind kindly lax long-suffering longanimous loose magnanimous melting merciful mild mindful mindful of others moderate negligent nonprohibitive obliging overindulgent overpermissive patient patient as Job permissive permitting persevering philosophical pitying regardful relaxed remiss ruthful self-controlled slack slipshod sloppy smooth soft softhearted solicitous sparing stoic suffering sympathetic sympathizing tactful tender tenderhearted thoughtful tolerant tolerating tolerative understanding unprohibitive unrestrained warmhearted weak